Sidekick Chat

Chat with a local LLM that can respond with information from your files, folders, and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. All conversations happen offline, and your data is saved locally.

Features:

Resource Use

Sidekick accesses files, folders, and websites from your experts, which can be individually configured to contain resources related to specific areas of interest. Activating a expert allows Sidekick to access the relevant information.

Because Sidekick uses RAG (Retrival Augmented Generation), you can theoretically put unlimited resources into each expert, and Sidekick will still find information relevant to your request to aid its response. This is in sharp contrast to most services, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, which can only ingest ~45 pages of text.

For example, a student might create the experts English Literature, Mathematics, Geography, Computer Science and Physics. In the image below, he has activated the expert Computer Science, allowing Sidekick to reply with information from that expert.

Users can also give Sidekick access to files just by dragging them into the input field. Sidekick can even respond with the latest information using web search, speeding up research.

Reasoning Model Support

Sidekick supports a variety of reasoning models, including Alibaba Cloud's QwQ-32B and DeepSeek's DeepSeek-R1.

Code Interpreter

Sidekick uses a code interpreter to boost the mathematical and logical capabilities of models.

Since small models are much better at writing code than doing math, having it write the code, execute it, and present the results dramatically increases trustworthiness of answers.

Image Generation

Sidekick can generate images from text, allowing you to create visual aids for your work.

There are no buttons, no switches to flick, no Image Generation mode. Instead, a built-in CoreML model automatically identifies image generation prompts, and generates an image when necessary.

Inline Writing Assistant

Press Command + Control + I to access Sidekick's inline writing assistant. For example, use the Answer Question command to do your homework without leaving Microsoft Word!

Advanced Markdown Rendering

Markdown in rendered beautifully in Sidekick.

• Latex: Sidekick offers native LaTeX rendering for mathematical equations.
• Data Visualization: Visualizations are automatically generated for tables when appropriate, with a variety of charts available, including bar charts, line charts and pie charts. Charts can be dragged and dropped into third party apps.
• Code: Code is beautifully rendered with syntax highlighting, and can be exported or copied at the click of a button.